Monday, February 27, 2012

Showing Up



Many things come our way in the course of a single day.

Today I've been thinking about what some of the Shamanic cultures call "Showing Up" or what Buddhists call "Being in the present". Being supple and flexible, bending without breaking like the willow tree. Moving with the currents of the River. Floating like a feather in the wind. Going with the proverbial flow.

All beautiful metaphors for Flexibility.

But what about all our plans? Schedules? Appointments?

Can we be present in the moment and in the flow while still showing up to our agreements?  Certainly. It's all in the way we look at things.  If, when opening our calendars to see what we have "on the books", we recoil when seeing that we have through our own choice packed our day full of activities, then we are constricting our natural energies, stopping the flow. If we instead notice that we have a very busy day ahead and greet our choices with ease, then we can move seemlessly between engagments. Yes, not all days flow so easily as clocks tick and people rush. We can however choose how we are going to respond to what the world grants us on a given day. We always get to choose.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Love




"To live, to work, to play are really One. 
If you ask me, the most Creative thing we can do is to Love people."

Vincent Van Gogh




photo of Starry Night

Monday, February 13, 2012

Friends



"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious 
as to have friends at a distance;
 they make the latitudes and the longitudes." 

Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, February 5, 2012

And For No Reason.....




"And for no reason I started skipping like a child.

And for no reason I turn a leaf that is carried so high. 

I kiss the sun's mouth and dissolve

And for no reason a thousand birds choose my head for a conference table, 

Start passing their cups of wine and their wild songbooks all around.

And for every reason in existence I begint to eternally laugh and love!

When I turn into a leaf and start dancing!

I run to kiss our beautiful friend and I dissolve into the Truth That I Am".

Hafiz